Wednesday, May 23, 2012

I can't believe that Elsie has been a part of our lives for two whole months now! It is ridiculous how fast time has gone. Again, it feels like she has been here forever, yet it has gone so fast. At about 6 weeks, she started sleeping from 10 pm until 6 am -- giving her mom and dad a much needed break in the sleep department! Elsie loves to look around and watch what is going on around her, especially if her big brother is around. She is becoming much more vocal cooing at whomever will listen to her.

Since our last milestone post, I have had to go back to work and leave Jace and Els with a family friend. Thank goodness school is over in 6 school days! PHEW! My favorite part of the day is when I get to pick up my little kiddos and I get one of those wide mouth uncontrolled grins -- when her eyes light up when she hears my voice. It makes me secretly happy that sometimes I'm the only one that can calm her down -- that we have that special bond. And even though it's looked upon as a "no no ... " I enjoy snuggling in the middle of the night when she doesn't want to sleep alone.

We haven't had the chance to take many pictures and to do many fun things -- being a working mom of two is BUSY! But here are some of the things we have done this last month:

Chilling out with Dad at the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. We went there in between the wedding and the reception.

Ok ... PRETTY GIRL!!

Can you tell that Jace is LOVING the museum?

Jace often asks if he can snuggle with Elsie in the morning. These two are awesome friends already! As soon as he snuggled up he asked Joe to get the camera! We're sure to have PLENTY of snap shots of these two snuggling.

Elsie started playing with the rattles on her little chair. It took awhile for us to realize that is what she was doing -- she has only done it once, I can't wait for her to do it again!

2 months old

A friend of mine took pictures of her little boy with the same stuffed animal as her baby got older -- to help see the growth that her baby was making. I thought it was an awesome idea, so plan on seeing this little purple horse hanging around! :)

Sunday, May 6, 2012

In the last year there has been a baby race to see which of the two Boucher babies would make their debut first. Niki, David's wife (Bro #2) was surprised to learn that she was expecting another baby -- her only "baby" being 17 years old. She has had many complications, and they didn't expect that Greyson would be able to stay in any longer than 32 weeks. He didn't have much room to grow and he was very carefully monitored. He was a good little boy though and waited to make his grand entrance until he was just over 36 weeks along. Elsie was born on March 23rd and Greyson on April 12th. When he was born, he weighed a whopping 5 lbs 2 oz. We have been trying for a few weeks to get these two together -- because not only did we want to meet this little miracle, we wanted to see if our little girl looks like she weighs TWICE as much as her little cousin.

She does!

Jace doesn't have a cousin very close in age to him -- and Elsie is lucky to have TWO! I can't wait to make multiple trips up to visit Dave, Niki, and her family -- and I hope that these two little babies grow close to each other!!!

About Me

I have the best job in the whole world -- I am the momma of a GREAT 4 year old who I am over the moon about -- and a beautiful, growing like a weed, little princess who, unbelievably, now is 1 years old! I love my family more than words can express. To make matters even BETTER, I have the best partner in crime that I could ever imagine. I have so much fun with my family and I am working on eternity with them!